This feature film with surprise success becomes the 1st horror film of 2025 to rise to the top of the box office 3 weeks in a row!

Released on August 6, 2025 in French theaters, a horror film has become the surprise success of the summer, even of the year, since it has already risen to the top of the world box office three weeks in a row! A success that has already given ideas to studios producing the feature film …

Do horror films again have the world box office rating? This is the question that we can ask when we see that one of them sits at the top of the top of the world box office already for three weeks. The good news for lovers of the genre is that it is an original film and not a reboot which we already know the end. It was on August 6, 2025 thatPassed out was released in French rooms. Two days later, he held the poster for American cinemas. This new feature film by Zach Cregger, to whom we owe Barbarous Released in 2022, became the first horror film of 2025 to achieve the feat of being first for three consecutive weeks. The pitch ofPassed out is simple: when all the children of the same class, with the exception of one of them, mysteriously disappear the same night, at the same time, the whole city sets out in search of who – or what – is at the origin of this unexplained phenomenon. The film is also inspired by the personal life of its director. A terrifying character, Gladys, absent from the trailers, will in particular freeze your blood.

Passed out, A total box office box

Whether in France or the United States, Passed outwhich we explain here the end, took the lead in the world box office. In three weeks, the feature film carried by Julia Garnier grabbed $ 115.8 million to the American box office. It is still far from the horror film number 1 of the year, Sinnersthe vampire feature film signed Ryan Coogler released in April, which finished with 278.5 million dollars in national revenue. In view of his trajectory, it is quite possible thatPassed out Considers it soon. Because in France too, he is largely number 1, since he kept the head of the France box office during his third Saturday and Sunday at the cinema, as we learn via the site CBO Box Office. Information confirmed by the X account (formerly Twitter) “The box office of films in France and in the world.” A similar success takes place across the Atlantic in the country of Uncle Sam, as reported Entertainment Weekly August 24, 2025.

Passed out : A prequel to one of the most striking characters in the film?

After The Hollywood ReporterWarner Bros. And New Line – the studios behind the film – would be in discussions with the director for a next prequel to the origins of Gladys, played by Amy Madigan. If no contract has yet been signed, Zach Cregger has a busy agenda-he is in the midst of pre-production of his next film, a reboot of Resident Evilexpected in theaters in 2026 – which means that if it is up, it will be necessary to wait to be able to see the prequel in theaters …

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